[220] Letter from Miss Nightingale to Mr. Rathbone, read to the Privy Council: see p. 90 of the book cited below (p. [362] n.).
[221] On Miss Nightingale's side two of the most effective pieces were: Is a General Register for Nurses Desirable? by Henry Bonham Carter (Blades, 1888), and What will Trained Nurses gain by joining the British Nurses Association? by Eva Lückes (Churchill, 1889).
[222] A verbatim report of the hearing (Nov. 21, 28) was published in 1893 entitled The Battle of the Nurses (Scientific Press).
[223] See the report of a deputation to the Prime Minister in the Times, April 29, 1913.
[224] Bibliography A, No. 131.
[225] See his Forty-one Years in India, chap. lxvi.
[226] Captain Galton was knighted in 1887.
[227] It was a subject of recurring self-reproach to Miss Nightingale in subsequent years that she had not found time to follow up this latter opening and organize a new crusade for the spiritual and moral welfare of the soldiers. She had already done much in that sort; and Mr. Jowett's equally recurring comment was to the point: “Why complain because you cannot do more than you do, which is already more than any other ten women could do?”
[228] A succinct statement of such reforms, up to 1899, was compiled by Mr. Frederick on his retirement from the War Office and was issued as a Blue-book: Record of Recommendations regarding Sanitary Improvements in Barracks and Hospitals together with the Actual Improvements carried out during the last 50 years.
[229] The Resolution is printed at pp. 38–42 of vol. xx. of the annual Report of Sanitary Measures in India (1888). It contains on the administrative side a history of the movement which was set on foot by Miss Nightingale's “second Royal Commission” (1863). The Secretary of State's dispatch (Jan. 10, 1889), approving of the Resolution, is full of “the Nightingale influence” (vol. xxi. p. 173): Colonel Yule's Minute was forwarded as an enclosure with the dispatch (pp. 173–184).